* Maiden names

[royp]

I have a number of distant relatives where i have their married names and not their maiden names. Is there a set way of recording this, such as placing their married name in brackets. I have made a note to say that their maiden name in unknown.

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[Rusty]

Everyone has their own favourite for this one, personally I put an asterisk before the name, others use brackets, others 'unknown', I think that it all boils down to personal preference, what suits one will be 'wrong' to someone else.

I probably haven't been much help, but you've probably started off a long thread. Actually I'm not sure what to search under but there have been other threads on this subject.


Margaret

[PatrickT]

As Rusty says, it's a matter of personal preference. I use [square] brackets. If you do use brackets, make sure there are no spaces within them or FH will parse the name incorrectly.

[gerrynuk]

Apparently, gedcom ignores anything after a closing '/' so I find the following works well for me. If I enter:

Mary//[Spouse of John Smith]

FH resolves this as:

Mary // [Spouse of John Smith]

All these entries are listed first alphabetically and so it is easy to find them when I need to add additional information and gives an immediate indication of the family to which the unknown person belongs.

If unmarried I put something like:

Mary // [Child of John Smith & Mary Jones]

Hope this is helpful.

Gerry

[Jane]

Gerry names after the / / are not ignored, they are classed as more of the Given names.

This is because in some cultures the given names follow the surname.

[gerrynuk]

Jane,

Thanks for the correction. It was a tip I gleaned from the internet some while ago. It makes the presentation of names consistent and works fine in FH. As everyone I know about so far has their forename before their surname then it works OK for me.

Gerry

[royp]

Many thanks to all those that answered my question. I pretty much guessed what the answer would be, but its nice to get ideas.

regards to all

roy parrott